4 BC-65 AD, Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Seneca – [Calamity]
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Seneca – [Danger]
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca – [Advice]
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
Seneca – [Conversation]
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
Seneca – [Courage]
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca – [Crime and Criminals]
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Seneca – [Death and Dying]
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca – [Difficulties]
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Seneca – [Disease]
Do everything as in the eye of another.
Seneca – [Eyes]
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Seneca – [Prayer]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca – [Alcohol and Alcoholism]
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
Seneca – [Economy and Economics]
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca – [Pleasure]
Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
Seneca – [Expectation]
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Seneca – [Punishment]
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Seneca – [Fate]
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Seneca – [Fate]
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
Seneca – [Loyalty]
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca – [Adversity]
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